Max Cole Endless Journey, 1st Edition, Radius Books 2023

Description: Max Cole, Endless Journey, 1st Edition, Published by Radius Books, 2023 Please message with any questions. Check out my feedback ratings and buy with confidence - I accept no-hassle returns for 30 days (buyer pays shipping). I will ship via USPS Media Mail within 24 hours of payment. Endless Journey, a survey exhibition of Max Cole’s paintings and works on paper spanning 60 years (1962–2022) is a revelation of the potential for expressivity within strict formal parameters. Cole’s predominant format of alternating horizontal bands in austere palettes of whites, grays, blacks, tawny raw linen, and the occasional ruddy red, alludes to the vast horizons of the American West and, obliquely, to Native American traditions of weaving and pottery decoration and perhaps Cole’s own distant Cherokee heritage. At the same time, the parameters for her compositions — consisting of regularly spaced horizontal bands of neutral colors, crisply painted, and alternating spaces filled with idiosyncratic, tightly spaced, hand-drawn, near-vertical lines — allow the artist to conjure a sense of eternal human presence in the work. Each tiny, delicate mark reads as a meditative act, imbued with rigorous attention, care, and focus. From a distance, these rows of marks are perceived in terms of value — darker or lighter than the adjacent bands — while, up close, they are an achingly insistent reminder of the artist’s physical presence and painterly actions. Check out my other listings and thanks for looking!

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Location: Alto, Michigan

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